Calendar.



No. 729,427. PATENTED'MAY 26, 1903.

G. H. T. SGRIBNER.

CALENDAR. Y

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1902.

N0 MODEL. 1

MON- Tua WED THUK,

if} INVENTOR GILT/502 1527 WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

No. 729,427. Patented May 26, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HENEY THOMAS 'SCRIBNER, or EMPORIA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHATTANOOGA MEDICINE COMPANY, OF cHATrA-NooeA, TENNESSEE, A CORPORATION. oE TENNESSEE.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part Letters Patent No. 729,427, dated. May 26, 1903. Application filed Novembei'1'3,-19 O2.". Serial No. 131,137. (No model.)

T wh it y OOH/067%: the lengthwise center of the clamp. It will Beit known that I, GEORGE HENRY-THOMAS be seen that the portion of the calendar- SCRIBNER, a-citiz'en of the UnitedStateaand sheets .A above the name of the month printaresident of Emporia, in'the county ofLyon ed thereon is cut out, as indicated at 1 in 5 and State of Kansas, have invented certain Figs. land 2,'and that the advertising matnew and useful Improvements in Calendars, ter on the card Bis exposed and visible of which the following isaspeciflcation. through such opening. The card is prefer- My invention has-for its object to'combine ably made of practically the same width as and display advertising matter in connection; the sheets A, and the clamp O is applied to 10 with a calendar inanovel and superior manthe upper edges of both sheets and secured ner. Advertisements are commonly printed; in a well known manner. Supposing the on each of the twelve sheets of a calendar or month of January to have passed and it be else the sheets are attached to a cardboard, j desired that the second calendar-sheet shall which is extended upward and bearsadverbe exposed to view, thefirst sheet is turned 15 tising matter. Thismethod is too expensive? and folded back over the clamp O, as shown for the small advertiser, such as the ordinary in Fig. 2, and is thus preserved for future retail dealer,'who can afford to make use of reference, if occasion should require, and but a small number ofcalendars. such position of the'folded sheet leaves the I have devised a plan by which a single advertising on the card B visible, as before.

20 advertising card or sheet serves for all of the Thus by the construction and combination of twelve sheets of a calendar, so that the calparts illustrated asingle calendar composed endar as a whole is not increased in size and of a series of sheets is provided with a single may be' furnished at a lower cost than those advertising card or sheet, which serves for of the class above referred to. Broadly stated, the entire number, so long as the calendar re- 25 my invention consists in so combining the" mains in use. It is to be further noted that calendar-sheets and an advertising-card that the card serves to reinforce and strengthen they are, permanently connected, yet adverthe upperportion of the calendar proper, and tising matter on the card is constantly disthus aids in preservingits form and adds to its played through an opening at the top of the durability.

30 calendar proper. v 7 'In its broader aspect myinvention may ap- The arrangement of the parts is such that ply .to other advertising media-that is to the calendar-sheets may be turned and foldsay, the card may bear any desired address ed overflthe back of the card at the endsof" "or information having a general reference to the respective months, and thus preserved matter printed upon the sheets A.

3 5 for future reference. Having thus described my invention, what The details of construction and arrange-' I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters ment of-parts are as hereinafter described, Patent, is reference being had to the accompanying 1. The combined calendar and advertiser, drawings, in which consisting of aseries of calendar-sheets which 0 Figure 1 is a face view of myimproved adare cutout in the upperportion, a card havvertisingcalendar. Fig. 2 is a view illus-- ing advertising matter thereon and arranged trating the calendar with one sheet turned in rear of the sheets, andoppositethe open- 0 back'over the advertising-card. Fig. 3 is an ing therein so that it is visible from the front, enlarged vertical cross-section. and a clamp applied to the sheets and card 45 In the several figures, A indicates the for securing them together permanently, the sheets of an ordinary calendar; B, the adsaid clamp being provided with a suspending vertising-card; 0, a sheet-metal clamp, and device, as shown and described.

D a suspending device which is attached to 2.v As an improved article of manufacture a series of sheets for containing printed matthe parts together at the top, substantially ter of general information, the same being as shown and described.-

cut out at the top and a card arranged behind such sheets so that it is visible through GEORGE HENRY THOMAS SCRIBNER' the opening in the latter, whereby printed Witnesses:

matter on the card is always visible whieh- CHAS. 0. BROWN,

ever sheet be in use, and means for securing W. W. BROWN. 

